The Ohio State University Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center

News

43 results found
Filter
A world map showing river storage variability across 61 basins, shaded from light to dark blue to indicate increasing variability. South America’s northern basin shows the highest values. Gray shading marks areas not assessed, including Antarctica.

SWOT Wide‑Swath Altimetry Reveals Global River Bank Morphology and Storage Variability

The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences (SES) Professor and Interim Director of the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Michael Durand and his team have been published in…

A map of North America showing bird‑decline intensity, with red and orange clusters in the U.S. Midwest and lighter yellow and green areas elsewhere.

Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture

Marta Jarzyna, associate professor of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology and principal investigator at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, and her colleagues have…

Four map panels of Greenland show modeled (1) number of temperate beds and temperature standard deviation at the ice base, 37 m depth, and 227 m depth; blue is lower and red is higher (K).

CryoRad from sea ice to ocean salinity, a new microwave approach could boost polar observations

Ken Jezek is the lead author, and Joel Johnson is a co-author.

Corresponding authors: Giovanni Macelloni, and others.

Wideband Radiometry From P to S Band for Monitoring Polar…

An engineered spherical SiO₂ microparticle.

Ohio State Researchers Help Advance Measurement of Nanoparticles and Microparticles Using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry Technology

A team of scientists, including several affiliated with The Ohio State University, has made significant progress in understanding how to more accurately measure nanoparticles and microparticles…

Thatched roof houses. Rural life, a remote paradise island under blue skies and white clouds and palms.

New Hybrid Forecasting Approach Significantly Improves El Niño Predictions

A recent international study published in Nature Communications has unveiled a new forecasting method that significantly enhances the prediction of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)…

A helicopter parked on a tarmac with a mountain in the background under a clear blue sky.

Glaciological and Geophysical Perspectives on Tropical Ice from a Scientific Survey of Mt. Huascarán

A new study published by Cambridge University Press 's Journal of Glaciology presents critical findings from a 2019 expedition to Nevado Huascarán, Peru's highest mountain and home to one…

Aerial of a large river winding in green valley

A Novel Use of Artificial Intelligence in Filling the Data Gap for GRACE and GRACE-FO Missions Using ERA5-Land Reanalysis

A new study published in Science of Remote Sensing presents a substantial improvement in reconstructing missing data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its…

Cover page of the Climate Change in the American Mind report

Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, Fall 2024

A new report titled Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics and Policy, Fall 2024 published by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YCCC), explores how American voters…

An Icefjord in Greenland, with large chunks of ice floating on the water under a cloudy sky, with rugged terrain in the foreground.

Greenland's Bedrock Shifts Reveal Surprising Summer Meltwater Storage

In a recent study published in Nature, an international research team including Michael Bevis and C.K. Shum—professors at The Ohio State University's School of Earth Sciences and…